Mixing device.



No. 636,737. Patented Nov. 7, I899. C. H. BAGLEY.

MIXING DEVICE.

(Application filed Dec. 27, 1898.)

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Appliation filed December 2'7, 1898. Serial No. 700,335. (No model.)

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Be it known that I, CHARLES H. BAGEEY, a citizen of the United States,residing at Hoboken, in the county of Hudson and State of New Jersey,have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Mixing Devices, ofwhich the following is a full and complete specification, such as willenable those skilled in the art to which itappertains to make and usethe same.

This invention relates to mixing devices; and the object thereof is toprovide an improved device of this class for use in mixing cocktails,punches, sours, fizzes, juleps, and other drinks requiring shaking andstraining in goblets or similar vessels in which the liquids to be mixedare placed in connection with finely chopped or broken ice.

The invention is fully disclosed in the following specification, ofwhich the accompanying drawings form a part, in which Figure 1 is acentral vertical section of an ordinary goblet provided with my improvedmixer, which is also shown in section; and Fig. 2 is a plan view of themixer.

In the drawings forming part of this specification the separate parts ofmy improve ment are designated by the same numerals of reference in eachof the views, and in said drawings I have shown at 5 a goblet on whichmy improved mixer is placed.

The mixer consists of a circular disk or plate 6, which is preferablyconvexo-concave in form and which is provided adjacent tothe perimeterwith an inwardly-directed annular flange 7, having a downwardly-directedrim 8, and the disk or plate 6 is adapted to be placed on and serve as acover for the goblet 5, and in this position of said disk or plate theinwardly-directed annular flange 7 rests on the top of the goblet, whilethe rim 8 projects downwardly therein. The disk or plate 6 is providedcentrally of the top thereof with an upwardlydirected extension 9, whichserves as a handle and which is circular in cross-section and the lowerend of which is preferably smaller than the top thereof, and secured insaid lower end is a plug 10, provided with a central bore 11, and thetop of the handle 9 is provided with a central open ing 12. v 1

The mixer or stirrer proper comprises a erally-extended loop or body 13,having a pointed lower end, and is provided with a shank 14, whichpasses through the plug 10 and the opening 12 in the top of the handle9, and to which is secured a knob orhead 15. The mixer or stirrer 13 andthe shaft 14 thereof are preferably composed of wire, the ends of whichare brought together and twisted to form a spiral, and the centralopening. 11 inthe plug 10 is also spiral in form. The spiral portion ofthe shank 14 extends only approximately through the handle 9 when themixer is in its lowest position, and the extreme upper end of said shankis adapted to turn in the knob-or head 15, which is loosely mountedthereon.

Although I have shown the shank 14 of the mixer as made spiral in formby twisting two wires together, the said shank may be composed of asingle piece provided with a thread of great pitch, and the centralopening 11 in the plug 10 may be provided with a corresponding thread,the object of this construction being to provide means whereby the mixeror beater 13 will be rapidly revolved as the shank 14 thereof is pulledor forced through the plug 10 by means of the knob or head 15.

The disk or plate 6 is provided in one side thereof and adjacent to itsperimeter with a plurality of perforations 16, and secured within saiddisk or plate below said perforations is a concavo-convex shield 17, theinner perimeter of which is segmental in form, said shield being shownin full lines in Fig. 1 and in dotted lines in Fig. 2, and the top orupper'surface of said disk or plate 6 is also preferably provided with asegmental flange or bead 18, which partially incloses the perforations16.

The operation will be readily understood from the foregoing descriptionwhen taken in connection with the accompanying drawings and thefollowing statement thereof.

The disk or plate 6'is placed on the goblet 5, as shown in Fig. 1, andone hand is applied to the top thereof to hold it in position, while theknob or head 15 is grasped by the other hand and the shank 14 is pulledthrough the plug 10. In this construction the mixer 13 is rapidlyrevolved in the goblet 5 and also rises therein, and the said mixer isalso rapidly revolved as the knob or head 15 is depressed and the shank14: forced downwardly through the plug 10. The upper end of one of theparts which form the shank 14 prevents the'knob or head 15 from passingdownwardly on the shank 14, and both parts of the shank 14 are free topass through theopening 12 in the top of the handle 9 of the disk orplate 6.

The above-described operation constitutes the mixing process, and thematerial to be mixed is placed in the goblet 5 in the usual manner. Themixer is especially adapted to enter between the fragments of icecontained in a cocktail or other mixed drink'and to rotate said ice inthe mixing process, thereby assisting the agitation and commingling ofthe fluids.

The perforations 16 in one side of the disk or plate 6 serve as astrainer, and the shield 17 serves to prevent said perforations frombeing clogged by large substances in straining the contents of thegoblet, and said shield also serves to prevent the fluids in the gobletfrom flowing out through the perforations in the disk or plate in theoperation of stirring the contents of the goblet or mixing the same, andin this latter operation the goblet and the disk or plate are grasped soas to hold the latter firmly on the top of the former, which is tiltedin order to pour the contents through the perforations 16.

The head or flange 18 is designed to serve as a guard for theperforations 16 and to prevent the operator from covering saidperforations with his fingers in the operation of pouring out orstraining the contents of the goblet, and that portion of the disk orplate in which the perforations are formed may be raised, if desired, inwhich event the bead or flange 18 would not be necessary.

This device is simple in construction and effective in operation and iswell adapted to accomplish the result for which it is intended, whilebeing also comparatively inexpensive.

Although I have described my improvement as adapted particularly for usein preparing mixed drinks, it will be apparent that the same may beemployed for mixing drugs and used as-a beater for various purposes.

It will be apparent that changes in and modifications of theconstruction herein described maybe made without departing from thespirit of my invention or sacrificing its advantages, and I reserve theright to make all such alterations therein andmodifications thereof asfairly come within the scope of my.

invention.

Having fully described my invention, I claim as new and desire to secureby Letters Patent In a device of the class described, a cover adapted tofit a goblet or similar vessel and provided at one side withperforations, and a shield secured to the lower surface of said coverbetween said perforations and the adjacent portion of the edge thereofand projecting laterally beneath said perforations, substantially asshown and described.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing as my invention I have signed myname, in presence of the subscribing witnesses, this 24th day ofDecember, 1898.

CHARLES II. BAGLEY.

\Vitnesses:

F. A. STEWART,

V. M. VOSLER.

